Jimmy Butler Trade Rumors: Miami Heat Open to Offers

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00:00Shams Charania of now ESPN, who had an inside pass report, has followed that up with what

00:17feels like an elevated report around Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat, saying that the

00:26Heat are open to listening to offers for Jimmy Butler. League sources told ESPN and the six-time

00:31all-star is believed to prefer a win-now contender in any trade. This is, of course, monstrous.

00:43If Jimmy Butler is dealt in season, that is going to move markets. Jimmy's a market mover,

00:54you know it, right? The postseason pedigree is better than most in this league.

01:03How many guys have a better postseason pedigree than Jimmy Butler, right? List is super, super

01:10short. The question then becomes, with Miami deciding or being willing, I guess, to go down

01:20this pathway, how quickly can this take shape? Also, this happening while the Heat are playing

01:29their best basketball of the season is quite something. I'm on a Miami Heat win total over

01:36at 43.5, actually was my favorite win total wager of the entire NBA season,

01:44and they are just starting to round into form. Now, it's happening because Hero is having a

01:48breakout season, which is awesome to watch, but Jimmy is, of course, a part of that averaging 19,

01:545, and 5, averaging around, you know, 26 and 5 during the win streak.

02:05Interesting from Miami that they don't want to double down and buy in. Well, that changes what

02:11we were going to do a little bit. Wow. I think what we do now is talk about who should be willing

02:23to make the move for Jimmy Butler, and I imagine there's going to be two very obvious teams linked

02:31to this situation. I'm going to try and play around with the money of it all to try and make it

02:38logical, but to some degree, anyone acquiring Jimmy Butler, not necessarily across the board,

02:47but if you're acquiring Jimmy either without a deal done or you know that this is going to

02:52force you to pay Jimmy Butler, right, you might be acting a tick out of desperation,

03:00so that's actually three obvious teams then maybe. The Lakers and the Warriors, right,

03:07and we know that that is tied to the fact that they have LeBron and Steph Curry and the idea of

03:13you don't want to waste that while it's true. You don't want to waste the time that you have those

03:19guys, and people worry about that. The third desperate team would be the Denver Nuggets,

03:26though, who have the best player in the NBA, which we all know he is, in Nikola Jokic,

03:33who is having arguably the greatest season of all time,

03:39greatest start to a season of all time, individually. He's averaging 32-14-10.

03:49His shooting splits, if you'd like them, yeah, 56-50-81.

03:54Dogs riled up, doesn't like the Heat future, perhaps in the balance.

04:00Jimmy Butler may be traded sooner than later off of the Miami Heat.